What does China have that America lacks?Quite a lot. China has more mid-level engineers, a more flexible workforce, and gigantic factories that can ramp up production at the drop of a hat. China also offers tech firms a one-stop solution. "The entire supply chain is in China now," a former high-ranking Apple executive tells The Times. "You need a thousand rubber gaskets? That's the factory next door. You need a million screws? That factory is a block away. You need that screw made a little bit different? It will take three hours."

The skies are going to look very different pretty soon, and it’s been a long time coming. Congress finally passed a spending bill for the Federal Aviation Administration, allocating $63.4 billion for modernizing the country’s air traffic control systems and expanding airspace for unmanned planes within three and a half years.

By Sept. 30, 2015, drones will have to have access to U.S. airspace that is currently reserved for piloted aircraft. This applies to military, commercial and privately owned drones — so it could mean a major increase in unmanned aircraft winging through our airspace. That’s airspace to be shared with airliners, cargo planes and small private aircraft.

Cowboy Town...right in your own back yard!!!Now you can have your own western town - complete with your own bank, saloon and livery stable...Custom built garden shed or play house set-up - or whatever you want them to be.

The billboard, which is in English and weighs 3 tons, was placed near an international bridge in Ciudad Juarez and can be seen from the United States.

“Dear friends of the United States, Mexico needs your help to stop this terrible violence that we’re suffering,” Calderon said in English during the unveiling ceremony.“The best way to do this is to stop the flow of automatic weapons into Mexico,” he added.

This is at the cafe inside the Memphis Zoo. The manager of the cafe told me that the alpha male monkey noticed me the second I walked in the door and started going crazy, because, as the alpha male, he feels threatened by tall males. So she told me to go stand by the window and turn my back on him and that he would "attack" me...

You do something to me, something deep inside
I'm hanging on the wire for a love I'll never find
You do something wonderful then chase it all away
Mixing my emotions that throws me back again
Hanging on the wire, I'm waiting for the change
I'm dancing through the fire, just to catch a flame
an' feel real again

You do something to me somewhere deep inside
I'm hoping to get close to a peace I cannot find

Dancing through the fire just to catch a flame
Just to get close to, just close enough
To tell you that.....

• A Muslim officer crying "Allah Akbar" while shooting up an army base is considered to have committed "Workplace Violence" while an American citizen boasting a Ron Paul bumper sticker is classified as a "Domestic Terrorist".
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Your government believes that the best way to eradicate trillions of dollars of debt is to spend more money.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• A seven year old boy can be thrown out of school for calling his teacher "cute" but hosting a sexual exploration class on a college campus is perfectly acceptable.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• The Supreme Court of the United States can rule that lower courts cannot display the 10 Commandments in their courtroom, while sitting in front of a display of the 10 Commandments.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if..
• Children are forcibly removed from parents who appropriately discipline them while children of "underprivileged" drug addicts are left to rot in filth infested cesspools.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Working class Americans pay for their own health care (and the health care of everyone else) while unmarried women are free to have child after child on the "State's" dime while never being held responsible for their own choices.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Hard work and success are rewarded with higher taxes and government intrusion, while slothful, lazy behavior is rewarded with EBT cards, WIC checks, Medicaid and subsidized housing.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• The government's plan for getting people back to work is to provide 99 weeks of unemployment checks (to not work).
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Being self-sufficient is considered a threat to the government.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Politicians think that stripping away the amendments to the constitution is really protecting the rights of the people.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if..
• The rights of the State come before the rights of the individual.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Parents believe the State is responsible for providing for their children.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• You can write a post like this just by reading the news headlines.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• You pay your mortgage faithfully, denying yourself the newest big screen TV while your neighbor defaults on his mortgage (while buying iphones, TV's and new cars) and the government forgives his debt and reduces his mortgage (with your tax dollars).
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Your government can add anything they want to your kid's water (fluoride, chlorine, etc.) but you are not allowed to give them raw milk.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Being stripped of the ability to defend yourself makes you "safe".
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• You have to have your parents signature to go on a field trip but not to get an abortion.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• You can get arrested for expired tags on your car but not for being in the country illegally.
You know you live in Upside-down Land if...
• Using the "N" word is considered "hate speech" but writing and signing songs about raping women and killing cops is considered "art".
Unfortunately, this list could go on and on. Our world has been turned upside-down. We are in distress. Where do we go from here?

With fewer than nine months to go before Election Day, The Signal predicts that Barack Obama will win the presidential contest with "303 electoral votes" to the Republican nominee's 235.

How do we know? We don't, of course. Campaigns and candidates evolve, and elections are dynamic events with more variables than can reasonably be distilled in an equation. But the data--based on a prediction engine created by Yahoo! scientists--suggest a second term is likely for the current president. This model does not use polls or prediction markets to directly gauge what voters are thinking. Instead, it forecasts the results of the Electoral College based on past elections, economic indicators, measures of state ideology, presidential approval ratings, incumbency, and a few other politically agnostic factors.

Although I don't agree with Roger Waters Politically , I find this album to be absolutely amazing.I was digging thru my CD's and grabbed this for the ride home.

From "wiki" Like every studio album Roger Waters has recorded since The Dark Side of the Moon, Amused to Death is a concept album. This one is organised loosely around the idea of a monkey randomly switching channels on a television, but explores numerous political and social themes, including critiques of the First Gulf War in "The Bravery of Being Out of Range" and "Perfect Sense".

How real are TV images? Roger Waters, former bassist/singer/songwriter for the British supergroup Pink Floyd, answers this question in his album Amused To Death. Released in 1992, this elegant and beautiful 72-minute musical work takes the listener on a journey through Waters' mind as he examines the images shown nightly on television. What does television do to our view of life? What is this machine doing to our society? Images. Images. Images. Consider images flashing rapidly before your eyes into infinity. What do these images hold? The album begins and ends with an old man telling the story of the death of Private William Hubbard of the Royal Fusiliers. This man's tale of tragedy in the battlefields of World War I is one for which no photographs, and certainly no video tapes, exist. This is the type of story told through words -- a grandfather speaking to his grandson. If human history is to be told through television, these types of stories will vanish. At the end of the album, the storyteller's voice trails off into a field of crickets. "The Ballad of Bill Hubbard" is extremely important to the continuity of Waters' album. It shows that television can show many things, but not everything. A world which relies only on television for information will disregard other types of knowledge. "MORE HERE"

Canadian Takes over 7 years to dig out basement with R/C Equipment...

According to a massive "50-plus-page thread on scale4x4rc.org", every morning Joe gets to work by loading his scale R/C excavator onto the back of a specially made R/C semi truck, then pilots the not-so-heavy equipment into his basement construction site. And by every morning, we mean every morning since June of 2005. Now that's dedication to the hobby. At the end of each day, all the newly excavated dirt and rubble is driven up a spiraling ramp and out the basement window.

My friend Robbie sent me some wild boar meat awhile back. I got some "porkchops" which I devoured and today I cooked up the sausage meat he sent for me to try.

I placed the meat in an aluminum tray, covered it with tin foil and left it on a grill at work on low setting, about 300 degrees. The meat steamed in its own juices for about 20-30 minutes.. and now its being consumed.

Guys, If Only You Had Money, you could help send a needy girl to college and get laid all at the same time....sheesh.

MIAMI (CBS4) – People who are looking for the perfect match, both men and women, go online seeking a certain kind of arrangement.A "SUGAR BABY" is typically younger and eager for adventure. A "SUGAR DADDY" is usually an older, financially established provider. A website called www.seekingarrangement.com helps the two meet.

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

I have been buried in Stephen King's 11-22-63 Novel for the past few weeks. I am 3/4's of the way through and some nights I have difficulty closing it and shutting off the light. So far I would rate it 4 - 5 stars.

Suffice it to say the story is pretty good and the premise of the book is rather interesting to say the least.

One of my friends read it and highly recommended it. So far I'm glad I have.

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Stephen King’s heart-stoppingly dramatic new novel is about a man who travels back in time to prevent the JFK assassination—a thousand page tour de force.

This video was taken by the crew of Expedition 30 on board the International Space Station. The sequence of shots was taken January 29, 2012 from 05:33:11 to 05:48:10 GMT, on a pass from just southwest of Mexico to the North Atlantic Ocean, northeast of Newfoundland. This pass begins looking over Central America towards the Gulf of Mexico and the southeastern United States. As the ISS travels northeast over the gulf, some southeastern United States cities can be distinguished, like New Orleans, Mobile, Jacksonville, and Atlanta. Continuing up the east coast, some northeastern states, like Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City stand out brightly along the coastline. The Aurora Borealis shines in the background as the pass finishes near Newfoundland.

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